If there's anyone that knows anything about job losses and the decline of American manufacturing, it's Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. Her long-suffering state of Michigan leads the nation with a whopping 15.2 percent unemployment rate (the rate in metro Detroit tops 17 percent). In August alone, Michigan lost...

House GOP Leader John Boehner promised Democrats a "long, hot August." And the corporate special interests that bankroll the conservative movement have not disappointed. They appear willing to go to any length to stop President Obama's agenda -- even if that means outright fraud in some cases.

Each day...

From top to bottom this week, the right-wing was all atwitter (literally) when it came to energy and climate issues. All of the activity did nothing so much as to underscore just how truly out of touch many conservatives are on these critically important issues.

The Tea Party set turned...

She was for it before she was against it. (After she didn't believe in it.)

Aside from incessant twittering, we hadn't heard too much from Sarah Palin since her courageous decision to abandon her position as governor of Alaska. At the time, her spokesperson insisted that...

In the two weeks after the historic House vote on a comprehensive clean energy and climate plan, conservatives and the far-right tea bag set have nearly self-immolated over what they see as the latest socialist plot to destroy America, one wind turbine and energy efficient hot tub at a time....

An embattled conservative minority that is out of ideas and beholden to Big Oil, Dirty Coal, and other polluters threw everything they had at the comprehensive clean energy jobs plan passed by the House of Representatives. But Minority Leader John Boehner sank to a new low in the clean energy...

Dirty energy interests have long held sway with the GOP's leading figures. In fact, we don't even have to merely speculate that the Bush-Cheney energy policy was written both by and for the coal, oil, and nuclear industries. We have proof.

And now we have proof that Big Coal...

Over a year ago, shareholder activist, current Sierra Club director, and past Sierra Club President Larry Fahn challenged the CEO of Chevron to a debate with Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope. After a year of dithering and delay from Chevron, Pope and Chevron CEO Dave O'Reilly finally met last...

As a fellow blogger wrote today, the minority on the House Energy & Commerce led by "Smokey Joe" Barton of Texas (R-Big Oil) turned out to be all hat and no cattle when it came to stopping the comprehensive clean energy jobs plan that passed the committee 33-25 last...

Like most of the rest of the DC enviro set, I spent Tuesday morning waiting with baited breath for details of the compromise around the Waxman-Markey clean energy and climate bill to come over the transom. But then midway through the morning the blogs and newswires were suddenly atwitter with...

It would truly take a production worthy of Broadway to convince the public that what we heard from House conservatives (and Newt Gingrich) last week was anything but a re-tread of the failed Dick Cheney/drill, baby, drill energy non-solutions they've been pushing for at least a decade now. So...

This week, the defenders of dirty energy really, really outdid themselves in their efforts to try and derail the clean energy jobs plan currently starting to wend its way through the House of Representatives. The House Energy & Commerce Committee held a marathon series of hearings on the plan,...

When I first saw the Earth Day message from House GOP Leader John Boehner come across my Twitter feed, I almost thought it was a joke. Boehner's blog basically outlines the main argument for letting the Environmental Protection Agency move forward with regulations to limit global warming pollution: that...

The most denying-est denier of all, Marc Morano, former flak to Senator James Inhofe launched a new denialist website this week called Climate Depot (and no, I won't link to it). It promises to give climate the ol' "fair and balanced" treatment, which apparently means the usual denialist dreck...

Everyone's favorite GOP muppet, RNC Chairman Michael Steele, really managed to outdo himself this week. And considering how things have gone for him so far, that's really saying something.

Your correspondent is not sure whether it's good or bad for Mr. Steele that he hosted an entire 2-hour radio show...

Today the Environmental Protection Agency is holding a public hearing (almost a novelty after 8 years of utter disregard for the public's opinion) here in D.C. to review the Bush administration's unlawful denial of the Clean Air Act waiver that California needs to move forward with its landmark global...

This morning, CNN ran a piece featuring Bruce Nilles, Director of Sierra Club's Move Beyond Coal Campaign, discussing the fabulous new Reality Coalition (of which Sierra Club is also a part) anti-"clean coal" ad. The new ad, directed by the Academy Award-winning Coen Brothers, has generated

President Obama is listening. One of the first things his new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Lisa Jackson, did was to acknowledge that Americans want cleaner cars; cars that go further on a gallon of gas and emit less global warming pollution.

EPA is now considering whether to...

The earth may be warming at an ever-quickening pace, but it's the climate blogosphere that's been burning white hot this week.

After years of soft-pedaling the science around global warming and actively abetting the Bush administration's strategy of sowing doubt about the problem, it seemed like the media had more...

As more than 2,500 environmental and labor activists gathered this week in Washington D.C. at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference, the nation's chief green jobs advocate-in-waiting, Labor Secretary-Designate Hilda Solis, remains in political purgatory thanks to conservative objections to a long overdue piece of legislation that will...